The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-08-24
WHOM THE NEWSPAPERS NOTICE
People Who Are Wen Known, and What
Is Said About Them.

A son Of Charles Dickens is to be one
of the social lions in New York next fall.
Lawyer Belva Lockwood is going to
lecture in New York state on the woman
question.
Dom Pedro paid much attention to the
Pasteur institute in Paris, with a view to
founding branch of it in Brazil, where
mad dogs abound.
Mrs. Augusta Evans Wilson is to rise
from her long literary slumber, and will
publish a new novel in the early fall. It
viii be entitled cat the Mercy of Tibe-
RUS. -
Florence Dunn, the little London school
girl who received ring from the queens
hand for not missing day at school for
seven years, is an Irish lassie from Tip
perary.
Mrs. Crawford, Paris correspondent of
The London Daily News and Truth, is
said to earn SO, 900 a year by her pen
the largest sum made by any woman out
of journalism.
The dissipated monarch of Hawaii has
gone into literature. He is writing a
book to be sailed the "Myths and Mois of
the Hawaiian Islands. The ex-United
States minister reads his copy and makes
suggestions, and New York firm will
publish it.
The Boston Transcript mentions that
the mother of the late Sylvanus Cobb,
Jr., had in her veins the blood of the
Hales, the Waites and the Stanwoods.
She was first cousin of Mrs. James G..
Blaine and Miss Abigail Dodge.
The empress of Japan, accompanied by
retlnue of twenty persons, will visit the
United States in October. She will land
at San Francisco, stop at Salt Lake,
Omaha and Chicago, and return, after a
two months sojourn, by the Southern
Pacific route.
Jefferson Davis and Thomas L. Cling
man, of North Carolina, are the only ex-
senators now living of all the southern
members of that body who, in July, 1861,
were expelled from the United States
senate for having left their seats and
gone over to the Confederacy.
Nine. Christine Nilsson has among her
treasures photographs with autographs
attached which have been presented her
by the queen of Spain, expresses of
Russia and Austria, the queens of Greece,
Sweden, and Norway, the Princess of
Wales, the Duchess of Edinburgh and
many other royal ladies. Nine. Nilsson
is probably the richest prima donna in
the world, and was the poorest when she
began her career.
Mrs. Leonard SWEET, nee Marie Decker,
who has just married the well known
Chicago lawyer, was her husbands con-
tidential clerk and partner in business for
number of years. Her interest in the
firm at the time of her marriage amounted
to $1,000 year. Starting out as book
keeper, she was soon placed in charge of
the vaults, and was the only one who
knew where to place hands upon i'm
portant papers connected with all the
varied interests intrusted with the firm.
In two years she became cashier in addi-
ton to the other trusts, and has for four
immense law business. Three years ago
she was admitted as partner.
Of the Rev. Edwin Thompson, who
has Just celebrated his seventy-eighth
! birthday in Boston, the poet Whittier
writes: ''More than fifty years ago met
him at the convention which formed the
first temperance society in Essex county,
and about the same time at the formation
of the Essex AHti-Slavery society. Since
then his genial face and cheering voice
have been rarely missed wherever the
causes of temperance and freedom met
together. He was always a welcome
speaker. Like President Lincoln, he had
the gift of story telling, and his stories
We're always to the point, putting TO
shame his opponents with ready wit and
humor.
The funeral of Miss Jennie Collins, the
philanthropic lady who established a
home for poor girls in Boston, was a
most impressive one. Girls she had be-
friended in their need, and sorrowing
friends We're there. Some wept silently,
some fingered and passed their hands low
ingly and terderly over the brow of the
dead woman others wept outright and
| were led away by friends, while III the
| corners of the vestibule and on the pave
ment near the church men and women
gathered in groups and told of little
deeds of kindness and thoughtfulness
which had endeared little Jennie Collins
to each personally, and grieved over the
loss of one so true and faithful to her self
imposed trusts.
Theodore Roosevelt speaks enthusiastic
| cally of ranch women. He tells of Mrs.
Bishop Hiff Warren, who is worth $780,
600, 900, and made it on cattle with NO
assistance other than her mother wit.
Another cattle queen, Mrs. Rogers, of
Corpus Christi, Tex, fearless rider,
goes over the range as frequently as the
ranchmen she employs. She started with
few cattle on a small scale, and has now
amassed 1000, 900, and is every day en-
larging her enterprises. A rich widow,
Mrs. Massey, of Colorado, went there
as an agent of life insurance company
and married a man owning $50, ZOO head
of cattle.